Anyone have surgery at Wright Patterson AFB

Just wondering if anyone has had their surgery at Wright Pat Dee

My friend just told me tonight htat she might have to go to Wright Patt because her insurance is thru tricare. I don't know of anyone who has done it there, but I would love to know more.

My surgery went great and the doctors and staff are all wonderful. There are only 2 doctors doing it and they only do the surgery on Tuesdays and they usually only do 2 patients a week. Tricare is always hard to figure out it depends on what kind you have and how far from base you live, the nice thing is once you decide to do it and get the tests and such they require there's not much to do. You don't go before insurance boards or anything like that. Dee

that is great to hear (that it went so well). Can I ask - how long were you in the hospital? drains? pre-op preps (bowel prep, liquid diet, etc)?? We live a solid 2 hours drive from wright patt...maybe a little longer. I'm kind of hoping they send her to one of the columbus hospitals...but you know how it goes...whatever they decide is what you go with!!

I was in the hospital for 3 days there was no prep except nothing to eat after midnight the night before. I didn't have any drains. Until your first post op appointment 7-10 days after surgery you have water or crystal light or flavored waters nothing else. You start eating pureed diet after that appointment assuming all is well. Usually if you live more that 50 miles away they will let you have surgery in civilian hospital but I'm unsure that tricare covers gastric so she will have to find that out. The only way it was available to me was because the doctors there were willing to do it. If they had no one who did that surgery I would have had to pay for civilian to do it. Dee

I had my surgery in Indiana and tri care paid for it. Best of luck!

Casey, Thought it was strange that you live in Dayton and had surgery in Indiana. I had my surgery at Wright Patt and now live in Indiana. In fact, your doctor spoke at the support group meeting last week. Hope you are doing well. Have my year follow-up at Wright-Patt on the 9th. Floyd

My wife and I both had surgery in April 2006 at Wright Patt. The surgical staff was superb and it was a great experience. We have since moved to Indiana, but we still do our doctors appointments there. In fact, we have a PCP appointment on April 6th and surgical follow-up on April 9th. Contact me anytime if you have further questions. Floyd